Are there any file or content types that are not suitable for GitHub?

Owned by Marc Miller
Last updated: Mar 08, 2024 by Marc Miller
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You should not store any private or sensitive data, such as passwords or private keys, in any of your repos.

Additionally, media and binary files are not well suited to be used in GitHub.

GitHub is intended as a source code repository.